Sundial was the codename of one of two massive nuclear bombs planned for testing by the University of California Radiation Laboratory, ... The first tests to utilize nuclear fusion came during Operation Greenhouse in 1951, which included the first trial of a boosted fission weapon in the Item test. [11] The first test of a true thermonuclear ...

2021年10月29日 · Post-war attempts to rein in the arms race failed, and the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949.

Sundial was the codename of one of two massive bombs planned for testing by the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch as part of a classified American weapons project

2024年11月14日 · Discover the chilling story of Project Sundial, a 1950s U.S. plan to build a nuclear bomb so powerful it could destroy humanity. Learn why it never happened and its lasting legacy on global security.

Sundial was the codename of one of two massive nuclear bombs planned for testing by the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch as part of a classified [1] [2] American weapons project in the early 1950s. [3]

2024年4月23日 · How feasible is Sundial? If absolutely everything is done to maximize the yield, would it be realistic to build a reasonably-sized 10 gigaton bomb?

2024年12月11日 · On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever created, the “Tsar Bomba,” over Mityushikha Bay in the Arctic Circle. With an estimated yield of 50 megatons...

2024年11月6日 · Known as Project Sundial, this doomsday device would have left a 400-km radius in flames and plunged the world into darkness. It was a bomb that would destroy everything – not a weapon, but an apocalypse.

2012年9月12日 · During the Manhattan Project, he quickly tired of working on the “regular” atomic bomb — it just seemed too easy, a problem of engineering, not physics. From as early as 1942 he became obsessed with the idea of a Super bomb — the hydrogen bomb — a weapon of theoretically endless power.

2024年11月13日 · By 1945, however, two world wars had killed 24 million soldiers and 50 million civilians, and the arrival of television, microwave ovens, jet planes, and atomic bombs had suddenly transformed...